I have a fish tank in my room, the filter makes a soft water sound which is soothing and will lull me to sleep. I also keep a pile of books to read next to my bed, or I do some sketching.

Sometimes I'll do a little bit of easy yoga before bed to stretch out my joints and relax.

17

Edit: Did you ninja edit that? I swore it read 21 before it changed to 24. But yes, I'm 24.

One of them that sticks out is when one of my online friends died a year after meeting her in person. We had a close circle of friends who met on a band forum and we traded social media and got to know each other well. I spent a day with her when I went to visit Hong Kong and I gave her some gifts. A year later I had just arrived in LA with some friends to attend E3 so we were all excited and once we had gotten settled in the hotel I get a message on facebook from our circle saying she had drowned. From what I know it was an accident, but that whole weekend was a blur so I didn't have time to grieve but it wasn't until after I returned home that it hit me that she was gone.

The band we all shared interest in heard the news and made a video for her.

Just figured I'd let this one out too, in light of a previous post... At some point in my teenager years I remembered that I was molested by a swim instructor when I was a child. I don't know if I suppressed it or I just didn't realize what was going on at the time. I haven't told my parents, I don't know what their reactions would be but I don't want to have them worry about me more than they do now [they're already worried about my diet problems and depression]. It just pains me so much that the person probably continued working with kids and I don't know if they did anything worse and I have no records of who they were. To this day I have a fear of water.

I guess a sort of happier experience was at the end of this past semester during our graduation dinner where I cried in front of 300 friends, family, and instructors giving my graduation speech. I was at the end of my rope and was about to switch degrees or just drop out. Fighting anxiety and depression on top of trying to finish my degree, and I realized I was surrounded by people who supported me. When I left the stage, one of the instructors quietly told me 'We never had a doubt.'

Great game, gotta love backcaps.

Going to put myself down as maybe, I don't know if I'll have a usable computer by that time yet [plus I'd be flying from California]. For those who went last time, is there a lot of stuff to do outside of the venue? I understand you'd need a ticket to get inside to begin with or is it just for a spot?

The best part about this is hearing the happiness from friends and classmates who can finally get married to their partners! And pride this weekend is gonna be crazier than ever.

And who knows, maybe down the line I can find myself with a nice lady!

Mackey

I don't feel like this is much compared to what I've read so far, but a few weeks ago I graduate college with a BFA in Animation-Illustration with a concentration in storyboarding. I also fought off wanting to die most of the past two years and I'm getting a little better each day.

Also unrelated but I've won a few awards for paintings I've done.

Just an update with the emotes:

We found out we have 9 slots for emotes, and have decided we're going to start from scratch with creating a bunch of fresh ones for the channel. Which means we're replacing the ones we have now. I believe Liz is fleshing out some that she'll post later tonight for feedback.

Played violin for 12 years and did all the exams, but quit right before I entered college. I'd like to take it up again, sort of miss it.

http://i.imgur.com/JlmDgSP.jpg

Mana came out to hang out with me during the weekend! With his cool wushu jacket!

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
Massive Attack - Mezzaine
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away
The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You
OK Go - Oh No
Phantogram - Eyelid Movies
Pink Martini - Sympathique
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Sigur Ros - ( )
Spazzkid - Promise
Vienna Teng - Waking Hour
Wild Sweet Orange - We Have Cause to Be Uneasy
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

I spent most of my morning and day tabeling as an artist at a convention, and then went to my graduation class dinner where I cried in front of approximately 300 people.

Mostly pictures of art, food, travels, and a few really bad selfies.

https://instagram.com/jasbutts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbzEOQLOAWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuJTqmpBnI0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFVG4VfPmg

Also this one isn't from a disney movie but damn do I love this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcg5rN-jlaw